Grace had it all but couldn't hold it all… A story of love chaos and the music in-between perfect for fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid.Twenty years ago Grace wanted nothing more than to be with Trent - a boy with a guitar and a lot of promises. Twenty years ago Dorothy wanted nothing more than for her daughter to fulfil her potential.In a moment of heartbreak and fury Grace makes a split-second decision to board a plane to London and put an ocean between them. There Grace takes a job answering calls for a wannabe music mogul and sends her life on a dazzling trajectory resulting in an illustrious career managing a megastar large houses in glamorous places two children (one who might be a sociopath but the other seems fine) and marriage to Ed. Ed who would do anything for her … except move back in.Now Grace is dragging her kids and a particularly irritating dachshund to her childhood home where Dorothy is waiting with a roast and inevitable questions about where it all went wrong. On a McDonald's pitstop among fractious kids and a runaway dog she bumps into a ghost from the past … Trent.Claire Zorn perfectly encapsulates the pitfalls of fledgling adulthood and the 'what ifs' of later life. She explores how the demands of being an adult - career marriage motherhood - can chip away at who we are and she accomplishes it with writing that is compassionate creative funny and thought-provoking.
